Forecasters Quotes

#1. Successful gamblers - and successful forecasters of any kind - do not think of the future in terms of no-lose bets, unimpeachable theories, and infinitely precise measurements. These are the illusions of the sucker, the sirens of his overconfidence.

Nate Silver

#2. There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them.
As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra once said, Don't waste your time trying to fight forecasters, stock analysts, economists and social scientists, except to play pranks on them.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#4. For-profit weather forecasters rarely predict exactly a 50 percent chance of rain, which might seem wishy-washy and indecisive to consumers.41 Instead, they'll flip a coin and round up to 60, or down to 40, even though this makes the forecasts both less accurate and

Nate Silver

#5. - Obviously, we're hoping that the weather forecasters are wrong, the way they tend to be about ninety-eight percent of the time
A few adults chuckled at that lameness. I remember thinking, hoping, that I would never turn into the kind of person who though weather jokes were funny.

Siobhan Vivian

#6. Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future ... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Eric Hoffer

#7. He would joke that "stock-market forecasters exist to make astrologers look good.

Clements, Jonathan

#8. A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

Howard Rheingold

#9. The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.

Conan O'Brien

#10. Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

Warren Buffett

#11. The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

Jean-Paul Kauffmann

#12. The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Edgar Fiedler

#13. I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

Rupert Murdoch

#14. We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

Warren Buffett

#15. Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he'd just turned their Doppler radar upside down.
Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)

Sapphire Phelan

#16. The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

Nouriel Roubini

#17. Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

Tadashi Shoji

#18. Our mental models aren't reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather. But, as we know all too well, sometimes the forecast says rain and, boom, the sun comes out. The tool is not reality. The key is knowing the difference.

Ed Catmull

#19. The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#20. Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

Edgar Fiedler

#21. If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

Brad Holland

#22. live each day as if it were my last.

Paulo Coelho

#23. And everyone else was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on a single issue.

Neal Shusterman

#24. Kim Jong Un's sister got married. That sounds like another Seth Rogen movie, doesn't it?

David Letterman

#25. You will identify yourself either as a body or perfect spirit, as either divided or whole, depending upon how you see others. And, once you understand that, you will be careful about how you think about other people.

Gary Renard

#26. At the worst it can only be death, and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same

Bram Stoker

#27. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#28. Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

#29. Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

Roger A. Caras